...After spending a little longer than originally planned in Guatemala we were left with only a couple of days to see part of El Salvador as we had a flight to catch on Sun 24th May. We caught a bus across the border & followed the ‘Ruta de Flores’ (Route of Flowers) - which is a beautiful stretch of mountain road lined with all manor of tropical plants, through to a town called Juayua - where there was a market & street party going on. It was really entertaining, there were a number of live bands - all playing music with a religious message, of which we understood little due to the language - but there was one band in particular who were really good & had the hundreds of people in the street bopping away in the name of the lord like there was no tomorrow! We stopped the night here & met some nice locals who told us all about the hardships of their lives under the weight of the civil war & the US Governments exploitation of their land. Easy to forget sometimes how fortunate we are to come from a developed relatively civilized society!
We then roughed it across a series of 4 local buses to the airport in San Salvador - whereby we were transported to a different world, as it transpired that our flight tickets were business class (of which we knew nothing) - so proceeded to hit the executive lounge & take full advantage of the complimentary bar, before boarding our plane for a full luxury flight down the Pacific coast over Nicaragua into San Jose, Costa Rica. We could definitely do with a few more journeys like that one!
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